Artist Comment:

Take a break while climbing Cheonggye Mountain. My face is reminded, and my forehead is sweaty. As if the director were putting the play on stage, I draw a mountain reflecting on the small and excessive aspects of my daily life.

Edition : 1/1

Artist : Lee Gilwoo

Created in Rice Paper by burning incense.

This is the one and only original version. The first collector gets a physical artwork. Send your address to email - ljhw2000@gmail.com

To give an overview of Lee Gil Woo’s work process, he first makes an underdrawing on rice paper, and then he burns the incense which he sees as being turned into fire and destroyed by ashes as a process of creation and extinction. Incense fire burns and extinguishes the underdrawing done on the rice paper. The spaces of emptiness that vanished after burning in the incense fire are reunited and regenerated to re-visualize the image of the initial sketch. Then, Lee puts it together with another pre-drawn picture, and the form drawn by the incense and the underdrawing of the background are superimposed, creating a double image at the same time. As two or three pictures are overlapped in this way, the emptiness creates a form, and the overlapped colors and forms become the underdrawing and return to emptiness again. His work process shows the philosophy of ‘Form itself is emptiness, and emptiness itself is form’ (色卽是空 空即是生). The Buddhist idea of reincarnation (輪回思想) permeates Lee Gil Woo’s work.